Culture and the Changing Environment : : Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective / / ed. by Michael J. Casimir.

• MitwirkendeR: Becker-Baumann, Heike,; Bender, Andrea,; Breit, Heiko,; Böhm, Gisela,; Casciarri, Barbara,; Casimir, Michael J.,; Döring, Thomas,; Eckensberger, Lutz H.,; Engels, Anita,; Grotzke, Andrea,; Göbel, Barbara,; Hoeppe, Götz,; Huppert, Annette,; Krüger, Fred,; Nerb, Josef,; Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger,; Schlehe, Judith,; Schmitt, Gabriela,; Seitz, Stefan,; Spada, Hans,; Vorlaufer, Karl,; Widlok, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Casimir, Michael J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)

Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However, these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches , these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Preface -- The Mutual Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change: An Introductory Essay -- Part I: Evaluating, Attributing and Deciding -- 1. Antinomies of Environmental Risk Perception: Cognitive Structure and Evaluation -- 2. Risk Management and Morality in Agriculture: Conventional and Organic Farming in a German Region -- 3. Attributed Causes of Environmental Problems: A Cross-Cultural Study of Coping Strategies -- 4. Decision-Making in Times of Disaster: The Acceptance of Wet-Rice Cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines -- 5. Drought and ‘Natural’ Stress in the Southern Dra Valley: Varying Perceptions among Nomads and Farmers -- 6. Local Environmental Crises and Global Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Coastal Zones in Senegal -- 7. Meshing a Tight Net: A Cultural Response to the Threat of Open Access Fishing Grounds -- Part II: Knowledge, Meaning and Discourse -- 8. Dangers, Experience and Luck: Living with Uncertainty in the Andes -- 9. Transforming Livelihoods: Meanings and Concepts of Drought, Coping and Risk Management in Botswana -- 10. Cultural Politics of Natural Disasters: Discourses on Volcanic Eruptions in Indonesia -- 11. Knowing the Sea in the ‘Time of Progress’: Environmental Change, Parallel Knowledges and the Uses of Metaphor in Kerala (South India) -- 12. Mass Tourism and Ecological Problems in Seaside Resorts of Southern Thailand: Environmental Perceptions, Assessments and Behaviour Regarding the Problem of Waste -- 13. Local Experts – Expert Locals: A Comparative Perspective on Biodiversity and Environmental Knowledge Systems in Australia and Namibia -- Notes on Contributors -- Index